Botahere cirrufractulus
As the population of Fungera primus grew, a scene of competition began to form. Particles to eat, which started out extremely common due to being a previously untapped market, became less and less numerous. In the midst of this, several fungi began to evolve ways to edge-up or completely avoid the competition. One of the former options came into existance when a fungus accidentally grew on Algearous greenensis and survived on the plentiful particles in the water. These became the ancestors of Fungera cirrufractulus. Later, these fungi also learned to parasitize Karpalgearous yellowus and Spheralgearous hostus as well.
F. cirrufractulus is a pelagic Synaplotan that lives in Zone 4, with a small population in the southern part of Zone 3. It starts its life as a zoospore, with small mycellium-derived antennae to smell where A. greenensis and K. yellowus is. When it finds its host, it will grapple onto it using an adhesive flagellum and create its mycellial network, straining out suspended particles and producing bursts of zoospores until it dies, typically by the death of the algae it's living on. The zoospore is typically 4-7 μm, smaller then its ancestor as it allows it to hang on the algae for longer. The mycellium has a theoretically unlimited size but it never grows more then a few millimeters in radius, as higher then that will be too heavy and will cause F. cirrufractulus to fall.